Of Letters and Mailboxes

I just got back from an out-of-town trip so my email is flooded with so many unread messages mostly from e-groups of which i am part of, some are notifications from all the social networking sites, a few announcements from the college/department of which i am part of, messages and submissions from my students and spams.

At around 8am, I went to the office, and found an envelope on my desk. It was my billing statement for my credit card. When I got home, slipped under my door was my internet bill. Oh well. Life is full of bills.

But then again, when you think about it, when all of my emails are on paper and all are sent through snail mail, my mailbox would be flooded with white envelopes not to mention the flooding style of spammers all over the world. My cute little mailbox might not hold all of these “documents.”

Mailboxes. How nice it would be to go back tp the time when emails are not yet that famous. Letters will be pouring in your mailboxes – letters and holidays greeting cards from your friends abroad, a letter from grandma, a postcard from your girlfriend, and even a fruit cake from tita tess in Manila, all cramped i your mailbox.

What happened to the companies that manufacture mailboxes now? Do they still earn?

I wish I would start receiving letters again. I miss opening my mailbox. I miss the feeling of excitement because opening mailboxes is like opening a christmas present from a friend.

I wish that the content of my mailbox will not be that of bills and bills alone.

I miss the old days.